There is currently a North-South gap in discussions on peacebuilding financing, despite the fact that emerging powers are playing an increasingly important role in fragile and conflict-affected countries. Now is the moment to create opportunities for mutual engagement, coordination, and learning.
Topic:
Finance, Conflict, Emerging Powers, and Peacebuilding
Political Geography:
South Asia, Middle East, India, East Asia, South Africa, and Latin America
Over the past two years, COVID-19 has deeply impacted mental health, both for individuals and entire communities, weakening trust between governments and people. This brief explores how justice systems and actors are interlinked with mental health and psychosocial wellbeing, and it makes the case for addressing the negative effects of these dynamics in a more systemized way.
Topic:
Conflict Prevention, United Nations, Mental Health, COVID-19, and Peacebuilding
The complex crises in our world—from rising instability linked to pandemic effects and climate change, to ongoing challenges of civil war, urban violence, violent extremism—require complex analysis and insights. Emerging technologies, data, and data science methods have been recognized as potential tools to help tackle some of these “wicked” problems across the humanitarian-development-peace nexus. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) potentially open a range of new opportunities for early warning and humanitarian preparedness, assessment and monitoring, service delivery, and operational and organizational efficiency. Advanced data analysis is the core of these efforts, and its success often depends on timely access, as well as the right quality and quantity of data.
Topic:
Science and Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Data, Machine Learning, and Peacebuilding
There is an increasing acknowledgment of the important role played by women
in peacebuilding worldwide. The UN Security Council Resolution (UNSC) 1325
calls for the full involvement of women in all efforts towards the maintenance of
and support for peace and security.1
Other successive UNSC resolutions linked
to the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) framework such as 1820, 1888, 1889,
1960, 2106, 2122, and 2242 have underscored the role of women in peacebuilding. However, Machakanja observes that “women’s participation in peace and
security in Africa remains more symbolic than substantive, and their capacity
to influence and engage in peace negotiations is often resisted by local cultural
norms and patriarchal hierarchies.”2
Although women contribute significantly to
peacebuilding in Africa, their efforts are often diminished, or “invisible.” This is
predominantly a result of the patriarchal bias which tends to exclude women
from political activities and official peace negotiations.3
Center of Analysis of International Relations (AIR Center)
Abstract:
The current issue of the Caucasus Strategic Perspectives (CSP) journal
entitled “Building Bridges over Caspian: South Caucasus-Central
Asia Cooperation” is dedicated to the new paradigms for peacebuilding
and geopolitical gaps, as well as possible confrontation and cooperation
matrices in the South Caucasus region with focus on security, economic,
humanitarian, political and geopolitical aspects.
The CSP’s new issue includes 7 articles and 1 book review. The CSP’s
current authors analysed the EU’s increasing mediation role towards the
South Caucasus region, the importance of the Middle Corridor for transregional connectivity, the recent processes in the South Caucasus region
in the light of ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, Türkiye’s engagement, as
well as the US strategic interests in this region, the possibility of the
potential threats for South Caucasus, etc.
Topic:
Foreign Policy, European Union, Geopolitics, Strategic Interests, Peacebuilding, and Russia-Ukraine War
Political Geography:
Russia, Central Asia, Turkey, Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan, South Caucasus, and Caspian Sea
The Carter Center, which serves as the Independent Observer of the implementation of Mali’s 2015 peace agreement, released a new report today that focuses on the reconciliation, justice, and humanitarian issues laid out in Title V of the agreement.
Topic:
Treaties and Agreements, Peace, Peacebuilding, and Truth and Reconciliation